Monday, December 28, 2009

My favorite nominees...

I read an interesting entry on Sage Slowdive's blog about the Best Best Actress nominees. And I thought that it's a list that must have been a great fun to make, but I haven't seen all of them so I can only pick some who I really liked. I wanted to do Best Actor, but I have seen more nominees from this category. I marked with a * those who should have won in my opinion. So my favorite nominees are:1936: Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey*1937: Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth*1939: Greta Garbo in Ninotchka1940: Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story1941: Bette Davis in The Little Foxes*1943: Ingrid Bergman in For Whom The Bell Tolls1944: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity1946: Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter*1947: Rosalind Russel in Mourning Becomes Electra*1948: Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number1950: Bette Davis in All About Eve1950: Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard*1954: Judy Garland in A Star is Born*1958: Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1959: Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer1959: Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer1960: Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment1961: Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's1962: Katharine Hepburn in A Long Day's Journey into Night1962: Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane1962: Lee Ramick in Days of Wine and Roses1962: Geraldine Page in The Sweet Bird of Youth (yes, all of them)1964: Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater*1965: Julie Andrews in Th Sound of Music1965: Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue1966: Ida Kaminska in The Shop on the Main Street1967: Anne Bancroft in The Graduate1967: Dame Edith Evans in The Whisperers*1969: Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, don't they?1974: Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under Influence*1974: Faye Dunaway in Chinatown1976: Liv Ullman in Face to Face1977: Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl1977: Jane Fonda in Julia1978: Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata*1980: Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People1981: Diane Keaton in Reds*1981: Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant's Woman1982: Jessica Lange in Frances1983: Meryl Streep in Silkwood*1983: Julie Walters in Educating Rita1985: Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple*1986: Sigourney Weaver in Aliens1987: Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction*1988: Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark1988: Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons*1991: Susan Sarandon & Geena Davis in Thelma And Louise1995: Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas1996: Brenda Blethyn in Secrets and Lies*1998: Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth*2000: Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream*2001: Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom2004: Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake*2005: Felicity Huffman in Transamerica*2006: Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal*2006: Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada2007: Julie Christie in Away From Her2008: Melissa Leo in Frozen River*2008: Meryl Streep in Doubt